Chris Traeger Literally My Favorite Person Essays

Now that Chris Traeger is no longer a resident of Pawnee, Parks and Recreation has lost both its go-to optimist and issuer of hyperbolic uses of the word literally. Both of these things literally — litrilly, even — sadden us. To raise our morale in the wake of the character’s tearful yet irrepressibly cheerful ta-ta, we’ve updated our compendium of the many times Chris Traeger has uttered the word literally over the years. And in the overachieving spirit of the endlessly upbeat bureaucrat, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to rank all 35 utterances by how awesome they are to say apropos of nothing.